Improvement in tobacco-smoking pipes



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ATENT' OFFICE.

FREDERICK FIOKEY, JR., OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO WM. H. FICKEY, OF SAME- PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-.SMOKING PIPES.

To all whom, t may concern.:

Beit known that I, FREDERICK FICKEY, J r., of the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented an Improvement in Tobacco-Pipes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the samereference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which the iigure represents a vertical section through the middle of my improved pipe and its stem.

The nature of my invention consists in so arranging ina tobacco-pipe a smoke-chamber containing a sponge or other porous absorbent substance-such as cotton, wool, pumicestone, &c.-thatwhile sponge or other substance shall receive and retain the nicotine or oil from the burning tobacco it shall be entirely separate and removed from that portion of the pipe in which the saliva tends to accumulate, the obj ect being to prevent the sponge or other like substance from ever being moistened by saliva, in order that its capacity for absorption shall be entirely devoted to the reception and retention of the nicotine, thus en` abling it to be used longer without cleansing or removal, and preventing the nicotine from fouling the pipe or being drawn into the mouth, all as hereinafter described.

My invention further consists in the peculiar arrangement and combination of smoke-chambers, smoke-passages, and saliva-cup herein described and shown.

I am aware that Sponges have sometimes been used in tobacco-pipes; but so far as I have been able todiscover they have always been placed in such a position that they have absorbed both the saliva and the nicotine, and that the bitter and acrid mixture would be drawn into the stem, and thence into the mouth, in the process of smoking. Thus after a short time the sponge rendered'the pipe more foul and offensive than it would have been without it by accumulating the saliva and nicotine at the point Where they would be most injurious.

The object of my improvements has been to deprive the smoke of heat by passing it through a variety of 4Chambersand passages, and to free it from nicotine and saliva, so that it shall reach the mouth cool and pure and incapable of producing an irritating or eXcori ating effect upon the mucous membrane.

rlhe drawing clearly shows the structure of my improved pipe, A being the bowl; B, the upper smoke-chamber, filled with sponge or other similarly-acting substance; C, the second, and D the lower, smoke-chamber; E, the saliva-cup, and F the tube or stem. a, b, c, and d mark the smokepassages, so arranged that the smoke has to traverse each chamber before descending to the succeeding one.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination and arrangement of the chambers A, B, C, and D, the smokepassages a, b, c, and d, and the saliva-cup E, in the manner described and shown.

2. Placing a sponge or similar material in such a position in a t0bacco-pipe that While it shall absorb and retain the nicotine it shall not be liable to come in contact with and absorb the saliva which may accumulate in the signed and witnessed, at Vashington, this 5th day of November, A. D. 1863.

FRED FICKEY, JR. Vitiiesses:

CHAs. F. STANsBURY, .IHos. H. UPPERMAN. 

